Gordon Ng

There’s no better way to appreciate the beauty of Maria Grazia Chiuri’s latest collection for Dior than through the details of their making – revealed in a series of films and images of its couture miniatures this season.

Alessandro Michele’s carousel of awkward beauty, set to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, turned an unexpectedly inward eye on the repetitive nature of fashion, one that seems to dress and undress itself ad nauseam.

The brand’s latest launch of haircare products are a refreshing and necessary change to the way we view haircare, starting with improving the health of the scalp through skincare principles.

The American designer’s runway show, with its Karole Armitage choreography as creative accompaniment, summoned up a longing for a bygone New York City – one that represents big lights and bigger dreams.

Stefano Pilati’s breathtaking collection of weightless tailoring quietly marked a departure in menswear, paving the way for the fluid tailoring, inspired much by the feminine, that we enjoy today.

If it looks like trashy reality TV, that’s because it is precisely that. The content of the Netflix series is mostly asinine, but it does strike up some trains of thought for a Singaporean viewer.

The house of Versace is at its strongest when its women are sexy, in command, and have their beauty celebrated. Its fall collection used a brash palette of colours and textures to push that vision – and it’s one of the house’s strongest in recent times.

The Audacious perfume, timed perfectly for the brand’s 25th anniversary, is a first for the brand and elegantly encapsulates its aesthetics and spirit.

Although all major brands helmed by successful designers, Coach 1941, Michael Kors, and Tom Ford’s Spring/Summer 2020 collections seemed awfully short on points of view for a new decade.

At Helmut Lang, the designers Mark Thomas and Thomas Cawson fed the hungry internet generation a healthy dose of 90s nostalgia, by way of the brand’s signature styles from the decade.

Old-fashioned, classic, elegant and timeless – colognes are the perfume of choice for the sweltering days.

Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez have brought their runway show back to New York, and it proved to be a standout from the seasoned label amidst a crowded week.

Kris Van Assche’s first runway collection for the Fall/Winter 2019 season saw him deftly reinterpret and propose new ways of looking at the bootmaking house’s history and codes.

The textile and garment artist Shawna Wu is an intriguing new talent whose work boldly embodies and dissects such complications as faceted identities, cultural burdens, sustainability, and empathy. ISSUE Magazine mines her mind and emotions.

On the tail of a debut solo show in Taksu Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, the Singaporean artist talks to ISSUE Magazine about his practice and obsession with colour.

Donatella Versace offered a reflection of masculinity to challenge menswear’s stereotypes in this Fall/Winter 2019 collection – ironically championing women above all else.

In a deceptively simple collection for the FW19 men’s season, Hussein Chalayan has offered an elegant answer to the question of what a man should be wearing in a time of change.

Ateliers Biagetti and Oï, and Tokujin Yoshioma contribute their creative geniuses to Louis Vuitton’s line of homeware, combining design and the craft capabilities of the luxury house.

From Nick Axelrod and Randi Christiansen come the most exciting new bodycare brand to hit the market: a tightly-edited and elegant blend of clean, effective, and sexy products.

China and the Chinese are more than their stereotypes, which when well-intentioned involve red and the Zodiac, and when racist involve dog-eating and other tired insults.

The Japanese skincare brand is launching its premium, ultra high-end range of products, named The Exceptional, designed and formulated to achieve clarity in skin.

Skai Bar is a new watering hole at the Swissôtel at the Stamford with a creative drinks menu inspired by altitude and height.

The Italian designer is back with a moderately-priced collection of Berlin-inspired pieces in a bid to bring back good taste and refinement to fashion.

The simple two handle vertical tote – in all its function and ubiquity – is done up with artisanal craft and design as part of Loewe’s Salone del Mobile 2018 collection, elevating the everyday to the extraordinary.

Dubbed the ABC Dior service, the French house now allows you to have your own name or text-of-choice emblazoned across its new hit monogram Book totes.

The buzzy contemporary label from Hugo Boss is making its debut in town with a new standalone store.

Studio Henry Wilson collaborated with the Australian brand to create a piece of homeware that’s as much decorative as it is elegant.

The homeware from Maison Margiela’s line 13 are sophisticated expressions of the house’s deconstructive witticisms – and so needlessly chic I want them all.

For Spring/Summer 2019, Miuccia Prada showed a collection that evolved out of her last, espousing a range of brand classics and updating them for a more certain future.

The Marni designer has an intimate understanding of the eccentricities and artistic oddball tendencies of the brand – and made clothes to celebrate a woman in her creative element.

The cult Florentine cosmetics range is now available in Colony Clothing at UE Square. We’ve got a little shopping list to start with.

At LFW SS19, designers like Richard Quinn and Molly Goddard shoot to success, while established British names like Mary Katrantzou and Jonathan Anderson play the long game.

French heritage haute couture houses like Paco Rabanne, Courrèges, Guy Laroche, Paul Poiret and even Jean Patou are getting a second lease of life with new investors and creative talent.

Hedi Slimane is out of touch, and the collection he showed for the venerated house shit on and disgraced a legacy of feminine strength and intelligence.

The hotly awaited show turned out to be a snoozer with no direction, a deflating departure for the pillar collection of London fashion week.

Calvin Klein, Tom Ford, Coach, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte were some of the big names that returned to show at NYFW Spring/Summer 2019 – though not all them showed a return to form.

A new guard of designers and brands in New York – Monse, Sies Marjan, Vaquera, Self Portrait and Area – showed a vision of the future at the Spring/Summer 2019 collections.

The optimism and promise of spring came from Kate Spade, Longchamp, Boss, Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta at the New York collections.

Differences were a source of beauty, excitement and energy at Prabal Gurung, Opening Ceremony, Pyer Moss and Chromat this Spring/Summer 2019 season.

Chanel is releasing Boy de Chanel, the brand’s first men’s makeup collection. It’s chic, it’s great, but there are better things out there

About damn time! The legacy French watch and jewellery brand is adding its key styles to both sites’ permanent offerings

The Olsen twins’ luxury label is doing a deep dive into the world of menswear, starting with a full collection in the Fall 2018 season

This Singaporean brand is making sumptuous hair and body products with the best botanicals and essential oils nature has to offer

Dior is letting the winds of fortune lead the design of its Rose des Vents fine jewellery collection, which is opening up a pop up in August

The word hipster, used to describe a specific youth subculture, is still being dissected and dragged from its grave for no reason other than to psychoanalyse ourselves.

The new quad eyeshadow palettes by Nars includes one named after our island state, and a few other goodies from the Fall 2018 collection

Marni is opening its Happy Market pop up in Singapore at ION Orchard for a limited time, stocking quirky lifestyle items and cute totes and baskets worth indulging in

The famed photographer is getting a double shout with two simultaneous exhibitions at the Armani/Silos and Fondazione Sozzani galleries centered on her work opening in September, timed for Milan Fashion Week

Jonathan Anderson has turned his cultural eye to 6 classics of literature in a collection of specially designed and published books

Chanel’s latest Les Eaux colognes are the perfect summer evocations of France by way of Deauville, Venice, and Biarritz.

Mona Lounge is a new cocktail bar in town that indulges itself in the style of sleazy, smoky, hedonism in 80s Hong Kong, an oddly refreshing addition to the scene

Tumi’s Latitude luggages are built to take the bumps in the road, the changes in the tide, the turbulence in the skies – it’s a tough nut

There’s no more division between high fashion and streetwear in menswear now, as this season’s changing of the guard shows

Could Virgil Abloh be the necessary kick we need to reconsider creativity today?

Olafur Eliasson’s first building, Fjordenhus, is a brick marvel combining fluid curvilinearity and unrelenting modernism

John Galliano's Spring/Summer 2019 collection for Maison Margiela is a step above regular fare – it's haute couture

Dior collaborates with Assoulin to commemorate its 70th anniversary with books cataloguing all of its artistic directors, from the original Christian Dior to today’s Maria Grazia Chiuri

A love letter to the classic, bestselling, iconic and indubitably divisive wand of light

My fruitless quest for a singular style identity and the elusiveness of a less-is-more philosophy

The Fall/Winter 2018 Louis Vuitton collection revealed Nicolas Ghesquiere’s masterplan for the brand and shone a truer light on the designer’s brilliance and influence.

Thanks to Anthony Vaccarello's fabulous, sauced up creations for the storied French house – think legs, legs, legs for days

How the designer at one of American fashion’s biggest brands is asking the right questions and making the right clothes for the times.